The developers of Gnome have released an update for the stable branch with version number 2.26.2. This popular desktop environment for *nix systems does not normally come as a preinstalled installation, but will need to be compiled independently in the correct order or become available with an update to your favorite Linux distribution. The corresponding announcement of this release on the mailing list is as follows:
GNOME 2.26.2 Stable Release
This is the second update to GNOME 2.26. It contains many fixes for important bugs that directly affect our users, documentation updates and also a large number of updated translations. Many thanks to all the contributors who worked hard on delivering those changes in time. We hope it will help people feel better in their daily use of computers!
The next stable version of GNOME will be GNOME 2.26.3, which is due on July 1st. Meanwhile, the GNOME community is actively working on the unstable branch of GNOME that will become GNOME 2.28 in September 2009.
The GNOME 2.26 release notes are available here.
The notes that describe the changes between 2.26.1 and 2.26.2 are here:
The GNOME 2.26.2 release is available here:
To compile GNOME 2.26.2, you can the jhbuild [1] module sets [2] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release):
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[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
[2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.26.2/
We hope you’ll love it,
The GNOME Release Team
| Version number | 2.26.2 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, Solaris |
| Website | gnome |
| Download | http://download.gnome.org/ |
| License type | Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.) |